Manifolding device



May 29, 1928. 1,671,209

. A. RUF

MANIFOLDING DEVICE Filed Jan9, $926 Patented May 29, 1928.

UNITED STATES ALFONS RUF, 0F ZURICH, SWITZERLAND.

MANIFOLDIN G DEVICE.

Application filed January29, 1926, Serial No.

The present invention relates to a manifolding device for loosedeaf journals for billing goods and for other purposes where a carbon copy of the writing is to be made and more particularly to devices of said class having a board with two clips of which one clip holds the copy sheet for instance a journal leaf as Well as the carbon-paper while the second clip holds the sheet on which the original entry or bill is to be made.

In the modern system of loose-leaf book keeping a plurality of entries are copied on one and the same copy sheet in regular sequence on consecutive lines while the original entries are written each on separate sheets. It has been the practice to make the copy sheet and the original sheets of different size and boxes of different size are necessary to store the sheets.

The main object of the invention is to provide a device which allows sheets of the same size to be used for the original entry and for the copy sheet, means being pro vided to ascertain the exact position of the sheets with reference to each other to get the copy of the original writing at the proper place on the copy sheet.

The novel features of the invention are more fully described in the following specification and claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Fig. l is a transverse section through the device shown in plan in Fig. 2.

Fig.2 is a top view.

Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of a detail drawn on a larger scale. I

Fig. 1- is a transverse section of the clip bar.

Fig. 5 is a broken transverse section and Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the modified form of hand support. 7

Figs. 7 to 9 illustrate a modified construction of the clip. Fig. 7 is a top View of the bar, Fig. 8 is a side view and Fig. 9 a cross section thereof.

Fig. 10 is a cross-section to a modified construction of the line pointer of which Fig. 11 is a side View.

The device shown in Figs. 1 to d comprises a plate 1 of aluminium having near one of its corners a block 2 to which a bar 3 is hingedly connected. To the lower side of bar 3 two clips 4 are fixed projecting about one tenth of an inch over the face 35 of the bar 3. The bar 3 is held in its clamping 84,697, and in Switzerland January 31, 1825.

position by a pin 6 slidably mounted in a block 5 fixed to plate 1. A screw bolt 7 engaging a groove of pin 6 prevents the loss of pin 6. The bar 3 is provided with two notches in which two square studs 21 fixed on plate 1 project. One face of each stud 21 is flush with the plane 35 of bar 3 and these faces serve as an abutment for the copy sheets 14 for instance the leaves of the loose-leaf journal. The clips hold the said leaves let together with the carbon paper while the face 35 serves as an abutment for the upper sheets 33 on which the entry is to be written. 011 the bar 3 two lugs 8 are fixed in which a lever 10 is pivoted by means of a pin 9. The lever 10 is provided with a bar 10' which runs parallel to bar 3 and which is pressed down on plate 1 by means of a torsion spring 11 acting on the lever 10. The bar 10" is intended to hold the upper sheet 33 which is removed after the entry has been made the lever 10 being pressed down,

by hand. On the bar 10-'a division is shown corresponding to the lines on the leaves 14 and On the plate 1a ledge 12 is fixed running parallel to the bar 3 along the opposite edge of the plate 1. On the face of said ledge 12 notches 13 are provided which are in line with the division marks on the bar 10, and with lines 1 to 21 marked in the plate 1. On the ledge 12 a carrier 15 is slidably mounted and to the carriage 15 a hand support 19 is hingedly connected. The support 19 projects over the plate and ends near bar 3. The carriage is provided with a knob 16 having a central bore in which a ball 17 is housed. The ball 17 is held in engagement with the notches l3 of the bar 12 by means of a spring 18erranged within the bore of the knob 16. The ball 17 retains the support 19 in its position. The support 19 not only sup ports the hand when writing but is intended to show the line on the upper sheet 33 to be written upon in order to get the copy on the proper line on the lower sheet 14 which is covered by the carbon paper. A

' lug 2O bent off from the support 19 facili tates the tilting of the support 19 into the position shown in broken lines Fig. 3 if the leaf 14 is to be removed.

The device is used as follows The leaf 14 is put in place on the plate in such a manner that one edge thereof abuts on the studs 21 while its lines are in line with the marks on the plate 1 and with the division marks on bar 10' and with the notches 13. The carbon paper is placed on leaf 14c and the bar 3 is then fastened by pin 6; leaf 14 with the tare-ea paper is held fast. The carriage 19 is placed into such a posit-ion that the upper edge of the support 19 uncovers the upper-most line of leaf 14. New the upper "sheet 33 is placed below, the bar 10 in such a manner that its left hand edge abuts onfacel35 of bar 3 and that the line on which an entry is c to be written is above that line ofleaf 14 on v vhich the fcopy has to appear. The clip 9, 10, 10 retaihs the upper sheet 33. If the entry is made the bar 10 is raised, sheet 33 is removed, the support 19 is moved down for one line by pushing on knob 16. The device is now ready to receive another sheet 33. ,It willbeseen that the left hand edges of th'eshcets 14L and 33 are one above the other and the columns printed on the said sheets may be exactly alike.

The carriage with thehand supports may be made asshownin Figs. 5 and 6. The bar 22 of T -shfapjed cross-section is rigidly fixed to the plate 1. A sleeve 24 is slidably mounted on the bar 22 and in'slots of said sleeve 24 the ends of a curved blade spring are held, The spring 25 presses a ball 23 into notches 13 of the bar 22. Thesleeve 24 isprovided with two lugs 29 in which a pin 28 having knobs26 at its ends is rotatably mounted. On the pin 28 sleeve 27 forming part of the. support 19 is fixed. By. turning a knob 26 the support 19 is lifted from the leaf 1 1. c

As shown in Figs. -7 and 8, and 9, the bar 3 maybe made of sheet metal. A strip of sheet metal is bent into a bar .30. with U-shaped cross-section. Small tongues. 31 tohold the leaves 14: areworked out of the side wall of bar and the, lugs 32 in which the lever 10 is to be j ournalled are formed by tongues cutin the bar 30 and bent to run parallel at right angles to bar 30.

Inplace of the line polnter 19 the device shown in Figs. 10 and 11 may be used. The

bar 10, is provided with. slot,37 and in said slot asmall rider 36 of celluloid, aluminium etc. is slidably mounted, The pointer 3,6 is bent to form a spring and is held by friction in its position in the slot. The end portion of thepointer is bentto run above the sheet 33. Thepointer 36 may be displaced :by the nib of the. writer and is preferablyshaped in s'ucha mannner that itcovers the place Where the date is to be writtenon-sheet 33. The writer has to displace the pointer 36 each time he has to make an entry and the displacement bf the pointer is not likely to be forgotten.

I wish it understood that various changes in ay be -lnade in the construction of the parts, for instance the clip to hold the papers may be made of a single blade spring holding the copy sheet and the carbon paper aioagtnetop edge while the trigiiial entry sheet is held by hand and so on.

H lVhat I wish to secure by U. S. Letters Patent is y 1. A mahifolding device comprising a plate, a bar hii'iged at one edge of the plate, abutinents fixed to said plate, one face of said abuti'nents being flush with a side wall of said bar, means carried the bar to clah' p' a leaf and a sheet of carbon paper'- on the plate, said means protruding sidewardly of the said bar, and a member pivotally mounted on the bar and carrying a portion to overlie and bear upon an original sheet to be placed on the carbon paper.

2. A inanifolding device comprising a plate, a bar hinged at one edge of the plate abutments fixed to said plate, one face of an i d abutm'ents being flush withaside wall of said bar, means'carried by the bar to clamp a leaf and a sheet of carbon paper on the plate, said means protrudingsidewar dly of the said bar, and a member pivotally mounted on the bar and carrying a portipn to overlie and bear upon an original sheetto be placed on the carbon paper, said extended portion having markings registered with lines on the plate, whereby to indicate a desired line of marking on the original sheet in registry with a particular line of writing onthe copy sheet or leaf. i

3. A manifold device comprising a plate marked with transverse lines to indicate lines of Writing, means carried by one edge of the plate to overlie and bear upon a copy and superimposed carbonsheet, ;a manifold operable member mounted in adjustmentjto said bearing means and having an extehded portion tooverlie and hold an originalsheet upon the carbon sheet, such extended portion having markings registering with the lines on the plate, whereby to indicate a d'e-' sired line of marking; on the original sheet in registry with a particular line of writing on the copy sheet, and a pointer carried by said extended portionand fmovable to indicate the successive lines of writing on the original sheet in registry with the similar lines on the copy sheet. V

In witness whereof I affix mysignature.

ALFONS RUE. 

